Bernhard rosing



(No Model.)

B; ROSING.

FLUE DUST COLLEGTOR.-

,No. 432,440. Patented July 15, 1890.

INVENTOH W/TNES ES:

ATTORNEYS U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BERNHARD ROSING, OF FRlEDRIOl-ISHUTTE, NEAR TARNOXVITZ, PRUSSIA, I

GERMANY.

FLU E-D U ST COLLECTO R.

SPECIFICATION. forming part of Letters Patent No. 432,440, dated July 15, 1890.

Application filed February 5, 1890- Serial No. 339,293. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 0, pass into the next compartment B, in Be it known that I, BERNHARD RCSSING, of which the fumes pass downward and through Friedrichshiitte, near Tarnowitz, Upper Sian opening F in the lower end of the partilesia,Prussia, Germany, have invented a new tion G into the compartment B and from and Improved Flue-Dust Collector, of which the latter they pass through an openingGin 5 5 the followingisafull,clear, and exact descripthe upper end of the partition 0 to the last tion. compartment B in which the fumes pass The invention relates to fume or flue-dust downward and escape through the outletcollectors for chimney-fines of the category opening H.

IO of the device shown and described .in the In each of the compartments 13,13, B and United States Letters Patent No. 376,386, B is supported near the top a horizontallygranted to Max Freudenberg April 24, 1883. extending wire-netting or perforated sheet I,

The object of the invention is to provide a from which are hung in close proximity to new and improved flue-dust collector which each other the wires J, extending loosely 15 is simple and durable in construction, and downward to within a short distance of the serves to collect the solid particles composing bottom of the said compartments 13,13, B and a large proportion of the escaping smoke or B as is plainly shown in Fig. 1. The netting fumes of silver, lead, copper, or other metal- I is arranged above the openings E and G, so lm-gicalfurnaces in distinction from the gaseas to utilize the greatest possible length of 20 o'us constituent of said smoke or fumes. wire. The fumes enter through the inlet- The invention consists of a system of sepopening D, and pass upward in line with the arate and independent depending Wires sussuspended wires J, thus coming in contact pended at their upper ends in the customary with the entire surface of the said wires, so flue-dust chambers, in line with the current that any metallic or solid particles in the 25 of the fumes. fumes are separated from the gaseous portion The invention also consists of certain parts of the latter by adhering to the said wires, or and details and combinations of the same, as by losing their velocity in the direction of the will be hereinafter more fully describod,and current so completely, owing to friction then pointed out in the claims. against the closely-huddled wires, that they 0 Reference is to behad to the accompanying settle down out of the current of fumes and drawings, forming a part of this specification, collect on the floor of the compartment. The in which similar letters of reference indicate fumes passing from the compartment B into corresponding parts in all the figures. the compartment B move downward and Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of the again come in contact with the wires J, sus- 35 improvement as applied. Fig. 2 is an enpended in the said compartment. Then the larged plan View of the improvement, and fumes pass into the third and fourth com- Fig. 3 is asectional side elevation of the same partments, also passing over the wires suson the line a: w of Fig. 2. pended in the said compartment, so that any To demonstrate the nature and application metallic or solid particles remaining in the 0 of the invention I have chosen a flue-dust fine-dust collect on the said suspended wires 0 chamber of the simplest ordinary construcin the several compartments or are precipition. As shown in the drawings, this fine tated by said wires. The fumes passing out dust chamber A is provided with a series of through the opening 1-1 are comparatively compartments B, B,B and B separated by free from any solid or metallic particles.

45 transverse partitions G, O, and 0 as is plainly When itis desirable to remove the collected shown in Fig. 1. Near the bottom of the particles adhering to the wires J, the latter chamber B is the inlet-opening D, through are lightly struck by a suitable tool, so that which enter the fumes from the furnaces. the particles fall down onto the bottoms of The fumes then pass upward and through an the several compartments and may be re- 50 opening E in the upper end of the partition moved.

At K K, Fig. 1, are indicated the doors or openings through which the discharging of the contents of the compartments is effected.

Having thus fully described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a flue-dust collector, a series of wires suspended in the fume or flue-dust chamber at their upper ends, and separate and independent of each other below their points of suspension, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a flue-dust collector, the combination, with a flue-dust chamber, of a series of separate and independent wires, suspended at their upper ends in the said cha1nber,in line 

